Stephen Jarman

Stephen provides advice and assistance to business owners and management teams covering the full gamut of corporate and commercial sectors using the 30 years of experience that he has clocked up since qualification.

Stephen is a corporate lawyer covering the full range of corporate law requirements, providing no-nonsense, constructive and, most importantly, commercial advice to, typically, business owners and their management teams.

He aims to become the “trusted adviser” to clients; someone that they are not afraid to pick up the phone to speak to. Stephen wants to understand a client’s business and how it ticks, he’s never happier than when he’s visiting a client and being shown round a manufacturing or engineering plant and seeing the raw materials/ components going in at one end and a finished product leaving at the other!

How Stephen can help you

Stephen offers constructive, straightforward, commercial and insightful advice to corporate entities large and small, concentrating in the SME/OMB sectors, dealing with matters such as:

• Company (and Asset) Sales and Purchases
• Management Buy-outs
• Management Buy-ins
• Private Equity transactions
• Shareholder Agreements
• Employee Ownership Trusts
• Demergers

Experience

• Stephen is a 33 year qualified corporate lawyer with extensive experience of private and public company work, the majority of which has involved clients involved in manufacturing and/or engineering, ranging from heavy duty metalwork to calibration and technical testing.
• He is a leading exponent of securing deferred consideration on corporate deals, whether by way of insurance or surety guarantee.
• Stephen boasts a very loyal client base, some of whom he has been dealing with for over 25 years.
• See here for an article about a large tech deal Stephen worked on in 2020.

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